We have been following this animated shortfilm since the first images appeared, and really it show that is great, also built with open source tools, blender mainly, and so we want to support it, these days is a runner up for the Goya award in Spain, so we want to congratulate them and wish them the best of luck!.

Watch the trailer here, and a little making of aswel.

Alike is an animated short film directed by Daniel Martinez Lara and co-directed by Rafa Cano Mendez. They have teamed up with ex Pepe-School-Land students to embark on this new project. However, the fact ex-students form the team does not mean this is part of the school’s itinerary.
It’s a personal project with former students.

“Alike” is developed using the operating system Linux and using Blender as primary tool for modeling, animation, rendering, composing and editing. In their blog you can find news about the production process, character concepts, animation tests, tips and tricks, tools, rigs and so on.

This is a gorgeous animated shortfilm developed by a handful of students from The Animation Workshop in 2011, I had the chance to meet some of them while they were producing the film and all the effort was truly worth it.

Francesco works as layout artist and freelance multimedia producer. He has worked at the Blender Institute on the Mango Open Movie Project and collaborated with the Blender Institute on other projects.
For Caminandes he is responsible for all organisational and financial tasks, and ensure the project targets are met.

Hjalti has been working as a character animator for 6 years, primarily working in Blender. Since 2007 he’s worked on the biggest animated ad campaigns in Iceland, many of which have been nominated and awarded at the Icelandic Advertising Awards.

Andy has been using blender for quite a while now, about 12 years give or take! He took part in Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny and most recently Tears of Steel. Gee, he must be getting old!
Usually he likes to light and comp stuff, but occasionally does other crazy things as well, like baking cookies or blending smoothies.

Juan is a 3d generalist who specialises in rigging and character modelling. He is the creator of BlenRig rigging system and in Caminandes 2 he is making use of the upcoming BlenRig 5. Juan is also working in two Blender features films, “Kiribati” and “Cronopios and Famas”.

Sergey is an active Blender developer since 2009 and since 2011 he is working part time for the Blender Foundation in developer support. Besides from general development tasks, his main focus is motion tracking. Sergey has worked 4 months in Amsterdam as studio TD for Project Mango – Tears of Steel.

During his 10 years of working as a full-time composer for media, Jan has written music for more than 200 shorts, documentary features, TV commercials, and video games. Among these, he provided the music and sound for the Blender Foundation Open Movies Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, and Sintel.

Beorn has worked in 3D and motion graphics for 18 years, recently specialising in character animation. Beorn’s work can be seen on Warner Brothers’ “Happy Feet 2”, the Blender Foundation’s “Sintel” and the first episode of Caminandes. He has contributed the story for this episode.

Wonderful animated teaser for the animated feature film Klaus, the detail level of the animation is far superior to anything i’ve seen and it mixes seamlessly the cg elements. Truly a masterpiece when it comes to craft.

Check out the trailer

Visit thespastudios.com to know their studio and the projects they have created or worked on: “Despicable Me”, “Rio”, “Foosballl”, “Tarzan”, “Treasure Planet”… as well as some of the new developments: “Klaus”, “Ex-Tinct”…

Graduation film from The Animation Workshop/VIA UC: The ugly parrot Pierre gets lucky when a fashionable pirate is being just a little too fashionably late …

“Parrot Away” was made by a team of third year Character Animation and CG Arts students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. Check out the individual students’ blogs at the links below to learn more about the talent behind the film!